Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-08-18

like the true devotee that he liz, he
still clings to Cleveland, his falle
idol, with the consoling reflection
that it might have been worsel Mr..
Curtis finds that the civil-service act
applies to about $4,000 of the u.s.
900 Federal offices; that there are
some $4,000 leading offices, with
patronage 90 dispense, and that in
the twenty-nine months of Cleve-
lands administration he had ap.
pointed $4,000 Democrats in these
places-a record that tells its own
story.
Mr.. Kepler, the gifted artist of
"Puck," has been in Washington
this week, it is said with the avowed
object of Strengthening out the
kinks in "reform" and capturing the
scalp of the offending Higgins, but,
! fear he has met with little en-
couragement.
The bond circular Of Secretary
Fairchild, while harmless in itself,
may well be regarded as a storm
signal by the financial world
chargeable to the unsound fiscal
policy of the Democracy in impo-
tently permitting the accumulation
of the vast Treasury surplus. In
considering Mr.. Fairchild's action,
and the reasons he gives therefor, |
can but conclude that the young
Secretary is a guiIeless fnancier
who has yet to cut his eye-teeth.
The Treasury Department reports
for the month Of July decrease &C
6,662, 748 in cash on hand, and an
increase of $4,047,l33 in the circu-
lation-the former being chiefly in
gold certificates and the latter in
standard silver dollars and certifi-
Gates; there was a decrease in the
circulation of national bank-notes.
Another Treasury scandal is in
the air-something like the Harvey
affair-though efforts are made to
cover it up by Controller Durham,
who denies IT, 70 state the matter
briefly, it appears that through the
Ignorance or negligence of the
Treasury officials a big batch of
California land surveying accounts
that were paid many years ago have
been worked over and paid again
When interviewed upon the frauds,
Commissioner Sparks was decidedly
non-committal and his manner was
such as to impress one with the
truthfulness of the charge. Full
details cannot now be given. 1t is
no secret that the Controller and
the Commissioner have long been at
loggerheads officially.
Bacon's boudsmen have notified
the Government that they are ready
to make good his alleged shortage
as soon as the amount is certified to
officially. About twenty patent
Attorneys of the District of Co
lumbia who borrowed $500 from the
late financial clerk and failed to
repay it, have been duly warned
that unless they refund the sum at
once it will be deemed a sufficient
reason to debar them from further
practice before the Interior Depart.
ment.
There was scion and a few
sprigs of royalty all the way from
Siam in the Capital few days
since; they were formally received
by the President, with the usual
interchange of commonplace cour.
tesies incident to such an occasion.
The Prince, whose name dare not
write, for fear of the possible injury
it might intlict upon the jaws of my
readers, was favorably impressed
and pronounced Washington a more
beautiful city than his own Capital
he took among his souveniers some
of the photographs of Mrs. Cleve,
land and chips from the Washington
Monument.
Remodel the old Army Songs,
Soldiers in their future Camp
Fires will kindly omit the verse in